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Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Tattooed Soldier (Rebels & Outcasts Regional Final)

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups If you can get off the ... More >>

Spring Street Parklets: The L.A. Weekly Review

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Southern California's First 'Parklet' Asks the Question: What is a Park, Really? If you felt like Downtown needed more nature to counteract its vast plains of concrete, consider your pleads heard -- somewhat. Earlier this month, the City of Lo ... More >>

John Arnold And Feliciano Serrano: Two Six-Figure Contributors Make Late Plays In L.A. Mayor's Race

Two men with little previous connection to L.A. politics are putting six-figure sums into the race for mayor in the final week of the campaign.John Arnold, a retired Enron trader who made billions running a Houston-based hedge fund, gave $200,000 to the committee supporting Kevin James.More oddly, D ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tomorrow For L.A., West Hollywood, Long Beach

As a small warm-up for the massive DUI crackdown scheduled to harsh your mellow New Years Eve, police around the L.A. area are planning DUI checkpoints. Locations include West Hollywood, Long Beach and the San Gabriel Valley. Think of this as practice for Monday, the ultimate amateur night. We'll ... More >>

Assessor John Noguez Accused Of Taking $185,000 Bribe From Tax Agent Ramin Salari; Three Arrested, Noguez Faces 30 Years

Updated at the bottom with how Noguez and Salari pleaded today. First posted at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday. Assessor John Noguez took $185,000 in bribes from tax agent Ramin Salari in exchange for reduced property tax assessments for Salari's clients, according to a criminal complaint filed today.Noguez, ... More >>

John Noguez, L.A. County Assessor, Arrested On Corruption Charges

John Noguez, the Los Angeles County Assessor, was arrested this morning on corruption charges, along with his deputy Mark McNeil and controversial tax agent Ramin Salari. Noguez was taken into custody at his home in Huntington Park. He and his co-defendants face 31 counts related to a wide ranging ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensaries In Downtown L.A. Visited By DEA As Feds Warn Them To Close

Updated at the bottom: The feds hit Eagle Rock today. First posted at 4:23 p.m. Monday. Nearly three weeks after federal authorities rocked the L.A. medical marijuana world by targeting all shops downtown and in Eagle Rock for closure, a pair of DEA agents today went knocking on the doors of at lea ... More >>

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Scott Schenter, Former Appraiser, Arrested And Charged With 60 Counts In Assessor Scandal

Updated with booking photo and further detail of the arrest. Scott Schenter, a former appraiser, was arrested this morning and charged with 60 felony counts in connection with a growing corruption investigation at the L.A. County Assessor's Office.Schenter is accused of wrongfully lowering property ... More >>

Finally: L.A. Gets Mexican Food Worthy of Mexico's Grand Tradition

Assessor Probe: D.A. Investigators Search Homes of John Noguez and Ramin Salari

Updated below with more details from yesterday's raid.Investigators from the L.A. County district attorney's office served search warrants at 12 locations this morning as part of an investigation of alleged corruption at the county assessor's office.The D.A. is investigating allegations of bribery a ... More >>

The Scandal Roiling the L.A. County Assessor's Office Suggests Your Tax Bill Is All About Who You Know, and How Much You've Donated to Assessor John Noguez

Robert Herrera, Alleged Chuck E. Cheese Killer, Suspected of Murdering for Good Parking Spot

L.A. County Sheriff's DepartmentRobert Herrera​Remember, last April, when 29-year-old Daniel Villanueva died in the name of a good Chuck E. Cheese parking spot? (So sad. And so L.A.) Well, as of this week, his alleged killer and killer's passenger have been identified by "a TV viewer who saw ... More >>

City of Vernon in Fight to Death With Assembly Speaker John Perez

Vernon vs. Assembly Speaker John Perez: What Should Happen Next?

Photo by Anne FishbeinThe L.A. River cuts through the City of Vernon​The City of Vernon (pop. 112) is in a fight to the death with Speaker John Perez, who is trying to end the city's long history of corruption by ending the city.But while the status quo is indefensible, shutting down the city woul ... More >>

Yolie Flores, Departing L. A. Unified School Board Member, Got Pushback From Student Anti-Reform Pawns

Ted SoquiYolie Flores​Yolie Flores, lifelong voice for families and students, recently decided not to return to her chair on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. Her disheartening enlightenment about the state of the district is chronicled in this week's L.A. Weekly print story 'The Educ ... More >>

L.A. Unified School District Board Race: Hot Seat is District 5

Candidate Kayser's UTLA endorsement got a late start -- Sanchez has had Mayor Villaraigosa's backing from the start​With Yolie Flores deciding not to return to this post, the hot seat in the L.A. Unified School District Board elections tomorrow will be District 5, the only open seat with no in ... More >>

Jack Kyser, Every L.A. Reporter's Favorite Economist, Dies

Jack Kyser​Jack Kyser, the founding economist of the L.A. Economic Development Corp., has died, according to a story on the Times' website.Kyser was every L.A. reporter's go-to source for a quote on the local economy. Whatever the story was about -- Black Friday, port container traffic, unemployme ... More >>

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

It's Party Time as Pal Cabron Opens on 8th Street

Barbara HansenBricia Lopez​ Bricia Lopez just turned 26, and her restaurant, Pal Cabron, just moved to its new digs on West 8th Street. Two such epochal events happening simultaneously called for a celebration to shake the galaxy. And that was last Friday's grand opening party at Pal Cabro ... More >>

Washington Times Brings Gangs, Graffiti And Illegal Immigrants To Bell Salary Story

Ted SoquiI see brown people ... at a Bell City Council meeting.​The Bell salary scandal, in which a city manager was found to be taking home as much as $1.5 million in compensation, has inspired headlines from coast to coast. But none of the coverage has been as dark as that of the Washington ... More >>

Welcome to the Season of Esquites: Mexican Grilled Corn

D. GonzalezGrilled corn at Yxta Cocina Mexicana​In the lingo of street food, the horn equals corn: tamales, mayo corn, and increasingly, esquites.  Although you might be familiar with the first two, now is the ideal time to get acquainted with roasted richness of the esquite. In her recently ... More >>

Latino Gang Member Who Targeted Black Victims Gets Life

​A Latino gang member who a judge said "preyed on victims because they were black" received a sentence of life in federal prison (and then some) this week. Francisco Flores, 24, actually received a life sentence as well as a consecutive 10 years for racketeering that includes conspiring to com ... More >>

Slayer’s Bloody Template

More tales of serial murder and psychosis, state oppression, snuff films and endless war over oil

Slayer Signs Guitars, Kids, Shark-Eaten Feet at Hot Topic

Slayer Signs Guitars, Kids and Shark-Eaten Feet at Hot Topic

Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

Will Teach for Food

A payroll disaster at LAUSD ruins educators’ finances, with no fix in sight

Mario Beltran’s Strange Bedfellows

A political brouhaha erupts as LAPD seizes documents from a Bell Gardens councilman and the city’s towing company

Politics Meets Street

Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?

Un Pueblo Olvidado por la Ley

A Spanish translation of “The Town the Law Forgot”. Pandillas, carteles y políticas al estilo “sur de la frontera” enlodan la reputación de un suburbio de L.A.

Bitch Slapped

Stripped of his takeover plan, Villaraigosa talks partnership with schools prez Marlene Canter — but this is war

Body Count

Some of the unsolved, mostly prostitution-related deaths

South of South of the Border

Arroz by any Other Name

Winnie the Pooh, Annie . . . and Richard Hell

Breakfast

Pan-Latin

Beyond Coffee and Cigarettes

Burning Blades

Riding high with the LAPD’s Air Support Division

Los Chalinillos

The next generation

Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue

The nation's busiest- and deadliest - light rail line

Variations in the Key of Taco

Let Bygones Be Buy Gone

The L.A. 53

Lights Out

Proposed power plant flames out in South Gate

On The Eve of Super Tuesday

The presidential hopefuls – and hopeless – do L.A.

Hope for Fremont High

New principal named to school after protests by teachers and students

Lost Soul

A lament for black Los Angeles

Radical and Real

Twenty years of smog, wars and holes in the ground

Special Inquiry at LAUSD

School officials cleared of bogus records; questions remain